vapid

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(slowly gliding), body posture (neither relaxed nor toned) and facial expression (vapid) than for her "pronounciation" per se.

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  1. adjective Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
  2. adjective Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.

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  • The woman standing over him was very tall and extremely pretty, much too beautiful for the vapid-faced young man who had come in with her. —  Flinx In Flux
  • There was nothing left of that slightly vapid, good-natured selfishness, amoral and greedy without being actively offensive to anyone. —  The Silicon Mage
  • She snarled and swatted at him with long red nails. —  Ensign Flandry
  • (slowly gliding), body posture (neither relaxed nor toned) and facial expression (vapid) than for her "pronounciation" per se. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
  • ") Even Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life had humor: these modern shows are vapid, and their only attraction is watching people walk off with money, cars, refrigerators, and other accoutrements of American covetousness for knowing little more than how to speak their own language. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
 

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insipid ·  banal ·  uninteresting ·  trivial ·  inane ·  puerile ·  tiresome ·  meaningless ·  frivolous ·  unmeaning ·  trite ·  stale
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin vapidus.

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  1. from Latin vapidus, that has exhaled its vapor, hence, flat, insipid; akin to vapor, steam, vapor: see vapor.
 

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